Overview of VietGAP
VietGAP is abbreviated words of Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices that means good Agricultural Poduction Practice in Vietnam. This is a set of standard is issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for each product or fisheries products, crops, livestock to ensure: Production engineering; Food safety; Traceability of products; Protection of the environment and health.
Content of VietGAP Standards
1- Manufacturing techniques standards:
- The aim is to use as little pesticide as possible to minimize the impact of chemical residues for human and environment:
- Integrated Pest Management = IPM;
- Intergrated Crop Management = ICM;
MRL = Maximum residue Limits in products.
2- Food safety standards:
The standards include measures to ensure no chemicals, infections or physical contamination during harvesting:
- The risk of biological, viruses, bacteria, fungi contamination.
- Chemical risk;
- Physics risk
3-Work environment:
The goal is to prevent the abuse of labor power of farmers:
- The health care, emergency facilities, toilets for workers;
- Training and retraining for workers and social welfare
4-Traceability:
VietGAP focus heavily on traceability, when breakdown is occurred, the supermarket and retail system must really be able to solve problems and evict error products. This standard allows us to identify the problems from production to products consumption.
Benefits of VietGAP for farmers
- Create safety and quality products: Products are certificated according to VietGAP standards, to be highly appraised, consume easily on Vietnamese market.
- Increase the trust of customers for food safety; protect consumers from the risk of food insecurity, negative influence for health.
- Products quality and price are always stable.
- Creating competitive advantage, enhance manufacturers trademark, processing, distributing.
- Creating a sustainable agricultural sector to minimize negative impacts on the environment and ensuring social benefits.
- Creating strong links between the four specialists: farmers, scientists, entrepreneurs and managers.
In the context of economic integration as strong as today, if VIetnamese farmers do not change spontaneous production routines, to be not only difficult agricultural products production and consumption, but also "loser at court "is the inevitable end.
Contact for VietGAP Consulting
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